PROGRAM Up and Away Jeong-Eun Lee, Piano
with Erin Webber, Oboe Sarah Wildey-Richmond, Bassoon Rachel Woolf, Flute February 13, 2024 UTSA Recital Hall Trio pour hautbois, basson et piano, FP 43 Presto Andante Rondo Up and Away: The Story of a Balloon for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano Inhale/Exhale Life on a String Letting Go
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Alyssa Morris (b.1984)
Erin Webber, oboe Sarah Wildey-Richmond, bassoon ~Intermission ~ Sonata in A Major for Flute and Piano in A Major (originally for violin and piano) Allegretto ben moderato Allegro Ben moderato: Recitativo-Fantasia Allegretto poco mosso Rachel Woolf, flute
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César Franck (1822-1890)
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Dedicated to performing a wide range of solo and chamber repertoire, pianist Jeong-Eun Lee is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Collaborative Piano at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Prior to joining UTSA, Lee taught at Indiana University as Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Scholar and held collaborative pianist positions at the State University of New York at Geneseo and Riverside City College in California. Jeong-Eun Lee has served as a collaborative pianist and performance coach at the Aspen Music Festival, where she previously received instrumental and vocal fellowships. She attended Songfest in Los Angeles as a Professional Piano Fellow and played in masterclasses of Margo Garrett, Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Renée Fleming, and Roger Vignoles. Lee participated in festivals including the Amalfi Coast Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Collabfest, Kneisel Chamber Festival, Holland International Music Sessions, and SongStudio. Since her orchestral debut with the Skagit Valley Symphony, Lee has appeared as a soloist with orchestras around the United States including the Seattle Symphony, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. She has performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA and in the Czech Republic, Italy, and the Netherlands. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Lee received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music, and the Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance, from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Jean Barr and Nelita True. As a student of Yoshikazu Nagai, she received the Master of Music degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Piano Performance. In addition to a concerto performance with the Riverside City College Symphony Orchestra, recent engagements include chamber concerts in the United States and South Korea. Erin Webber holds the position of Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she leads a rapidly growing oboe studio and coaches the UTSA Wind Quintet. She also maintains a private studio and operates a thriving Etsy shop, Erin’s Oboe Reeds. Professor Webber is an active free-lance musician in the San Antonio area, playing oboe and English horn regularly with the San Antonio Philharmonic, as well as regional ensembles such as Symphony of the Hills and Mid-Texas Symphony. She holds the position of principal oboe with Alamo City Symphony Viva and is a founding member of San Antonio Harmonie Ensemble. Most recently she began exploring baroque oboe and plays regularly with Sonido Barroco San Antonio. She collaborates regularly with fellow UTSA faculty on solo and chamber recitals, including performing on a colleague’s recital at the 2022 IDRS conference. Invested in promoting new music for double reeds, she has joined a number of composition consortiums and in 2023 premiered Corpse Flower, a sonata for oboe and piano by Martin J. Van Klompenberg, with plans to premier a new work for oboe and bassoon in 2024. She earned her Masters in Music Performance from Arizona State University, studying with Martin Schuring, and her Bachelors in Music Performance from Western Kentucky University, studying with Dr. Michele Fiala. She also spent several years mentoring with David Weber of Weber Reeds Inc. Professor Webber’s composition for oboe, English horn and piano, Overheard on a Saltmarsh, is available through Trevco Music and can be heard on Michele Fiala’s CD Overheard.
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Dr. Sarah Wildey-Richmond teaches bassoon and music history at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and bassoon at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas Lutheran University. An avid orchestral and chamber music performer, Dr. Wildey holds the contrabassoon chair with the Amarillo Symphony and is principal bassoonist of the woodwind octet San Antonio Harmonie. Originally from Upstate New York, Dr. Wildey received her DMA in bassoon performance and pedagogy from The University of Iowa under the tutelage of Benjamin Coelho. She holds a masters degree in music performance with an outside area in historical bassoon from Indiana University, and an undergraduate degree in music education from York College of Pennsylvania. Outside of music, Dr. Wildey is passionate about animal rescue, baking and cooking, cleaning up San Antonio’s riverways with The San Antonio River Authority and River Aid San Antonio (RASA), and fiber arts. Dr. Rachel Woolf serves as Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Texas at San Antonio School of Music. Accomplished as a multidimensional artist, Rachel is Principal Flute with the Victoria Bach Festival, flutist in Dallas based symphonic pop rock band, The Polyphonic Spree, regularly performs with the San Antonio Philharmonic, and has performed and recorded with the United States Air Force Band of the West. She has collaborated with diverse artists like Jośe González, Il Divo, Darren Criss, and Swans. Rachel has performed at the National Flute Association Convention (NFA) eight times, and in the 2022 and 2023 conventions was a featured performer on the Friday Night Gala Concert. Additionally, she has been a featured Gala artist at the 2023 North American Saxophone Alliance Convention (NASA), as well as a performer at the 2023 International Clarinet Association, ClarinetFest and 2023 College Music Society’s National Conference. Actively engaged with programming new and diverse works, her flute and marimba duo, Duo 彩 Aya, has commissioned four new works for flute and marimba for performances across the United States and Japan in the 2023-2024 season. Rachel has been a founding member of multiple new music groups in Ann Arbor and Los Angeles and has premiered numerous new works for flute and piccolo, including Paul Schoenfield’s Psychobird (A Sonatina for Piccolo and Piano) with Paul Schoenfield on piano. She can be heard premiering works by William Bolcom and Jennifer Higdon on the widely released Classical Structures with the University of Michigan Symphony Band on Equilibrium Records. Additionally, she can be heard playing principal and bass flute on the GIA Windworks label, Canvases and Offerings, with the UNT Wind Symphony. Rachel has given masterclasses, recitals, and clinics at The University of Michigan, The University of Alabama, The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Texas, University of North Carolina Greensboro, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Bowling Green State University, Texas Christian University, University of Oregon, SUNY Potsdam, Baylor University, Oklahoma State University, Austin Flute Society’s Festival, Texas Flute Society’s Festival, Texas Summer Flute Symposium, and Floot Fire camps. and others. She has been a Guest Artist Teacher at Texas A&M Commerce. She has also been on judging panels for the NFA Junior Soloist Competition, Texas Music Education’s Association (TMEA) All-State Convention, NFA Collegiate Flute Choir Competition, Myrna Brown Competition (Texas Flute Society), and VOCE Competition (San Diego). Beyond her performances across the United States, she has performed in Sweden, Finland, Russia, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, France, England, and Canada. She received her Bachelor of Music at the University of Michigan, obtained her Master of Music at Bowling Green State University, where she was the flute
Teaching Assistant, and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas as a Teaching Fellow with a related field in Ethnomusicology. She has studied under the tutelage of Amy Porter, Dr. Conor Nelson, Terri Sundberg, Dr. James Scott, Marianne Gedigian, and Karen Reynolds. 4
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